Member of Alberta coal mining committee feeling 'disgust and dismay' over new plan
Bill Trafford and fellow committee members decry Smith government's rejection of public opinion to appease foreign coal prospectors
By Joel Dryden, CBC News
Bill Trafford was a member of Alberta's coal policy committee. He is the president of the Livingstone Landowners Group, and he says he's not the only committee member shocked by the recent news.
"[The committee] just can't believe that the government would ask us to do all this. And we did it … in a way that was probably much more thorough and much more positive than anything they'd ever done, in terms of getting public engagement," Trafford said in an interview.
"Then they say, 'Well, we're going to throw that in the dumpster and go ahead with what the coal industry thinks they want to do.'"
Read Joel Dryden’s full CBC web article . . .
What a criminal bunch of UCP politicians to cave to legal threats and sacrifice the health of the water supply of millions of prairie people living in the Saskatchewan River Watershed.....these are the same people who won't allow wind turbines or solar panels in the same area for the possibility of ruining "pristine vistas!"...Bloody Hypocrites!